wormhole

English

Alternative forms

• worm-hole
• worme-hole†

Etymology

worm +‎ hole

Noun

wormhole (plural wormholes)

1. a hole burrowed by a worm
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

     To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.

2. (physics) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

Wikipedia

Related terms

• Einstein-Rosen bridge

Translations

a hole burrowed by a worm

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟲洞 (cmn), 虫洞 (cmn) (chóngdòng)

• Finnish: madonreikä (fi)
• French: trou de ver (fr) m
• German: Wurmloch (de) n
• Portuguese: buraco de minhoca (pt) m

• Russian: червоточина (ru) (červotóčina) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црвоточина (sh) f

  Roman: crvotočina (sh) f

• Spanish: agujero de gusano (es) m

a shortcut between distant parts of space

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟲洞 (cmn), 虫洞 (cmn) (chóngdòng), 蛀孔 (cmn) (zhùkǒng), 蠹孔 (cmn) (dùkǒng)

• Finnish: madonreikä (fi)
• French: trou de ver (fr) m
• German: Wurmloch (de) n
• Hungarian: féreglyuk (hu)
• Italian: cunicolo (it) m
• Japanese: ワームホール (ja) (wāmuhōru)

• Russian: кротовая нора (ru) (krotóvaja norá) f  (mole hole), кротовина (ru) (krotóvina) f , червоточина (ru) (červotóčina) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црвоточина (sh) f

  Roman: crvotočina (sh) f

• Spanish: agujero de gusano (es) m
• Swedish: maskhål (sv) n

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• Georgian: ჭიანაჭამი (ka) (čianačami)